The Egyptian Book of the dead

by Unknown

I am Sutu, the father of the gods, the imperishable one.

Stay, Horus, for he is counted among the gods.

Notes.

[1.] Time.

[2.] See note on Chapter 17, 27. It must be sufficient here to say that Thoth is a personification of the moon, and that the relations of solar and lunar phenomena are the sources of a great deal of Egyptian mythology.

[3.] This is one of the most difficult passages in the Book of the Dead, but I do not see how it can be grammatically understood otherwise. It is understood from the passage from Light to Darkness and the converse.

‘In his lot,’ literally ‘in him.’

‘End his being’: more strictly, ‘bring to an end his activity’;